Change Delivery Manager

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Nottingham, United Kingdom

This role is for a Change Delivery Manager at Capital One, focusing on leading business-wide change initiatives. The manager will bring together cross-functional resources, provide clear communication, adapt methodologies, challenge plans, deal with ambiguity, and identify efficiency improvements. The role requires strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills to embed ways of working and create a culture of transparency. The manager will utilize appropriate delivery approaches, manage risks, issues, and dependencies, and ensure successful implementation and review of change in a dynamic and governed manner. They will also focus on building and motivating cross-functional teams, driving continuous improvement, and understanding the business context. Experience with Agile and MSP methodologies, problem-solving, managing dependencies, and working in a regulated environment is desired.

What you'd actually do

  1. Bringing cross functional resources together to tackle a wide range of business problems
  2. Providing clear communication and coordination between delivery teams and wider business stakeholders
  3. Adapting your methodology and style to suit different scenarios
  4. Challenging and stress testing plans, scope and delivery approaches
  5. Dealing with ambiguity and navigating when processes are not clearly defined or understood

Skills

Required

  • Agile
  • MSP
  • Problem solving
  • Analytical skills
  • Cross-team dependency management
  • Risk management
  • Issue management
  • Leadership
  • Ambiguity tolerance
  • Relationship building
  • Collaboration
  • Governance
  • Reporting
  • Communication
  • Influencing
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Coaching

Nice to have

  • Experience in a complex regulated environment

What the JD emphasized

  • Proven experience of delivering change in a fast paced environment, utilising a variety of delivery methodologies including Agile and MSP
  • Excellent problem solving & analytical skills, providing structured thinking and understanding to problems, transforming them into actionable work for teams, coupled with an unwavering desire to deliver for our customers and business
  • Proven experience of managing cross team dependencies, risks and issues
  • You are confident in leading through ambiguity, in a fast paced, changing environment
  • Strong relationship building and collaboration skills to steer and guide teams and stakeholders up to Director/Sponsor level.
  • A credible track record of improving the effectiveness of delivery
  • Proven experience of managing cross team governance and reporting
  • Comfortable working in a complex regulated environment (experience is desirable)
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills allowing you to engage with teams and wider stakeholders and create a culture of transparency across all aspects of delivery.
  • A high level of emotional intelligence allowing you to read a room
  • A passion for leading and coaching other delivery resources to support growth of wider team